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The net effect on national savings, and therefore on overall economic growth, is zilch.
There is something that can be done to change the outcome.
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But nothing like this ever gets said.
There are things that keep being said despite it would be better not to say them
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Supporters of income redistribution foresee poor economic outlooks for future generations, should these supporters choose to avoid appearing hypocritical.
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An article argues that liberals should oppose the National Endowment for the Arts on the grounds that art does not need federal subsidies.
Liberals should not support the arts.
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The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory.
The marches happened one year before.
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As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded.
Self-righteous people are always good people.
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Lohengrin (Metropolitan Opera, New York City).
Lohengrin is an opera.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
A delivery from Amazon takes 3-7 days.
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For instance, as the mobility of capital reduces the power of unions, the chance for including labor rights in the world trade treaty known as GATT--the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs--grows remote.
Defending labor rights grows harder for unions with the mobility of capital.
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Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10.
Monday Night Football has slipped outside of the top 20.
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It always hurts to be constrained, but sometimes it's worth it if your neighbors are constrained too.
Being limited is less painful if your neighbors are as well.
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They hype you by giving you an award.
The honors always hurt the recipients.
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On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).
Nixon shows up as a cartoon character over ten times on the Simpsons.
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Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
The shops' hours are speculative.
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Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day.
The person was full of energy the next day.
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Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
Patents can be held on all kinds of things.
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But I'm not kidding, it's time for her to go.
She maybe welcome back another time.
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The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home.
The Globe did not interview Kathie Lee.
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When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.
If a decision maker is weighing more cons than pros, they will make a conservative decision.
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Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth.
Wolfe's portrait captures the fundamental truth.
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Even the singers don't like these songs.
The songs aren't liked by the singers.
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In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
Auction sellers experience a winner's curse.
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A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.
A piece reports about blueberry flavored tube yogurt.
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For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents.
Pooh sold poorly to parents in America and Britain.
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Now, to commemorate our first anniversary, in an act of incredible corporate generosity that is every bit as good as providing health insurance (I'm sure that Mr. Gates will make this sort of thing more available should Microsoft prove profitable), Slate
We have decided to start peeling back benefits in an effort to cut costs.
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complaining to her about their disgusting fellow citizens.
blowing their top regarding grotesque legal residents residing in their own country.
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American Beauty won three Golden Globes, including Best Drama . Acting awards went to Hilary Swank for Boys Don't Cry , Denzel Washington for The Hurricane , Janet McTeer for Tumbleweeds , and Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon . HBO series, including the critically hyped The Sopranos , won most of the television awards.
The Sopranos won the most television awards.
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Here, again, was a world they could understand.
Interacting with it in more sophisticated ways helps bring a better understanding of the world.
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How could the Mormons have practiced polygamy?
Some Mormans don't know what polygamy is.
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During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him.
George W. Bush father showed little interest in politics.
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No, as it happens, it doesn't.
It could.
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The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad.
The Amman failure could have serious consequences
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Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run would have traveled about 474 feet.
The distance that McGwire's home run might have traveled has been scientifically determined
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If anyone actually was inclined to light up a cigar after breakfast, he would have been breaking the NAM's no-smoking rule, according to an association representative (who, like another witness I talked to, saw no cigars).
Multiple witness have affirmed that no one was smoking cigars at the establishment.
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As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded.
Just like the Oscars it's the self-righteous individuals that get rewarded.
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Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.
The film made women feel filth-smeared.
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It's as though the book was not edited at all.
The editor was fired.
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They're interested in the clash of personalities.
They liked for all people around them to be the same.
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Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here.
Finkelstein broke new ground and continues to break new ground.
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Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
The FTC will go after him next.
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I have an irritation, not a problem, but I thought perhaps you could offer me a palliative.
The person thought they could get help.
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The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set.
Georgia has never been home to any politician that does not fit their Right agenda.
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The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience.
Hate is a highly subjective experience according to the essay.
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
Mammary cells preform common and unspecialized activities.
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I can't in good conscience argue that you shouldn't field a team.
I do, however, firmly believe you should get a haircut first.
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Videotape of her answers will be shown to the Arkansas Whitewater grand jury, which will disband May 7. Pundits played up the tension between Starr and the first lady (since she recently called him a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right-wing opponents of my husband) and debated whether he will indict her.
The First Lady and Starr had a wonderful and fulfilling relationship as described by the reporting teams.
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Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries.
According to believers, God exists based on recent scientific discoveries..
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We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors.
We apologize for our delayed judgment, which we realize is years too late.
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Starr has been especially squirmy about this.
Starr has strong feeling about this.
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Ad revenue increased but not enough to cover enormous new Recruiting new subscribers by direct mail, printing more magazines, and mailing more magazines are tremendously expensive operations.
Ad revenue increased, which was more than enough to cover the operating expenses.
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The wrist supporters I ordered were black neoprene with a metal brace and a flexible magnetic band.
The author wanted metal support on their wrist supporters.
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Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar.
The demeanor is linked to high regard for currency.
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Some of these Nobel Prize winners don't want to deal with empirical reality at all.
Some of the Nobel Prize winners chose to avoid the empirical reality.
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Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
Parents love it when their struggling children come back home to live.
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Sad organ music is suddenly replaced by an upbeat, jazzy The owner opens the drawer and takes the package.
The music remains sad.
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
The is evidence that these stories have bias.
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Few bounty hunter training programs exist--the most frequently attended programs are 20-hour courses that cover only basic legal constraints.
A bounty hunter must seek out advanced training in legal constraints on their own time.
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Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent.
Shepard think that the growth of the productivity might be even less than 1 percent of how much is being predicted
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There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.
There was plenty of pigs over the place
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In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.
In the 1970s, Democrats argued that Republican presidents needed authorization from Congress to enact military action.
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Nero was emperor until 70 A.D.
70 A.D. marked the end of Nero's reign as emperor.
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I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
Nothing was out if the ordinary.
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But apparently no definitive number ...
The precise number is quite clear.
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Paul Samuelson had good reasons for beginning his textbook with Keynesian analysis.
Most of the text relied on Keynes thinking.
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In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.
The finacial gain of 1$ for the sale of American RE was a normal thing in these types of business transactions.
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The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has.
The state galvanized over the anti-poker campaign.
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The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about.
The Flytrap investigation is one of many parts of Starr's work that America cares about and understands.
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As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers.
A great deal of information is available from British news organizations when you surf the Web.
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Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.
The quota sampling was the same across all demographics.
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Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
Poets who are living are eligible.
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If you missed the link about the really big marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit, click .
It's a small marriage penalty--the one created by the earned-income tax credit.
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That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious.
He wanted to bomb Iraq in October.
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You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance.
There are two sides to where intelligence comes from.
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Which might suggest that real business news is no more popular than it ever was.
Real business news was most popular in the past.
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Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.)
It will be easy to find what you are looking for on the microsoft website.
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Rolling Stone 's cover story traces Stern's history from mediocre rock DJ to king of shock jocks.
Rolling Stone includes Stern's history as a rock DJ in their story.
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The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.
The Taliban are still run by the Soviet Union.
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Mencken of the Clinton era--the president's symbiotic scourge.
Mencken is considered to be a benefit to the Clinton era.
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6) The real outrage is that boxing officials won't be able to raise enough money to pay the exorbitant sums the boxers are demanding for a rematch.
It is really joyous that the boxing officials are struggling to come up with the money.
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We know that Sullivan believes in him (her?
We are unsure of what Sullivan believes.
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The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons.
The New York Times reports that singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have illegitimate daughters.
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According to Time , dopamine explains how and why we become addicted to sex, drugs, booze, gambling, food, cheap thrills, and yes, tobacco.
There are also other positive addictions that domamine causes.
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A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like.
She stated that she has no idea what William Shakespeare looks like.
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The judge agreed there were extenuating circumstances because both songwriters had been inspired by old blues music.
The songwriters were fully aware of their plagiarism
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Well, which is Do swings in Starr's reputation affect Clinton or not?
Clinton could be affected by Starr's reputation.
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As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them.
Parole agents have little ability to stop an offender who is expected to commit new crimes from committing them.
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Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.
People in countries like South Korea and Taiwan make far more on average, than individuals in America.
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All this time, the land for the library has sat undisturbed, covered with tall weeds and empty buildings, its intended purpose marked only by a banner that has grown progressively more tattered.
The land for the library is not sought after.
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They spoke of our guys and those guys.
Words were unuttered on the topics of guys.
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Time says that space tourism has a new former astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Buzz Aldrin tried and failed to become an astronaut long ago.
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That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.
He overelaborated the potential of biology.
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The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said.
A serious problem like the Covid couldn't have been avoided even with the mightiest of Russian miracles
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Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly.
Overwhelming confirmation was in the works for three.
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Based on a review of the trajectory charts in The Physics of Baseball and Keep Your Eye on the The Science and Folklore of Baseball , conversations with University of Puget Sound physicist Andrew Rex, and correspondence with aerospace engineer and baseball researcher Roger Hawks, I determined that the McGwire home run would have traveled about 474 feet.
McGwire's made an home run whose potential traveled distance is under the average in baseball
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In cases like this, it's the economist's job to explain where we ought to be headed, and the political scientist's job to explain why we can't get there from here.
In these scenarios, a couple different professions play roles in assessing our direction.
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This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir.
The performance was at the Radio City Music Hall.
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Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.
New York's Administration for Children's Services were completely unaware of what had happened.
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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
It's caused me a lot of heartache to reveal all my limitations.
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But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him.
He attracted the ire of those who refrained from filing a lawsuit against him.
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Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read.
I find Plot's explanation to be silly.
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